Additional Info: Officer Nguyen had been with the Jersey City Police Department for six years.

Incident Details

Cause of Death: Officer Nguyen was killed when the emergency truck he was in plunged off a bridge in thick fog. His partner, Shawn Carson was also killed.

Date of Incident: December 25, 2005

By Michangelo Conte, The Jersey Journal

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - "We found him. We got him. We're coming up," New York City police diver John Drzal said over his radio from the bottom of the Hackensack River yesterday, moments after locating the body of missing Jersey City Police Officer Robert Nguyen.

Drzal said he's recovered a number of bodies from beneath the waves during his 13 years as a police diver, but this discovery was particularly meaningful.

"I was just happy to find a fellow officer - a brother officer - and bring closure," he said at a 3 p.m. press conference, about 90 minutes after the discovery.